Abstract
The ideas of modern literature from Madame de Stael to Matthew Arnold inherit the form of traditional literature which approaches literature from the perspective of the modes and outcomes of the subject's activities on the basis of the theory of subjectivity.Thus what they revealed through literature studies is not the truth of literature itself but the subject itself i.e. how the subject forms through literary activities. The Russian formalists put forward the concept of literariness which defined the object of literature as literariness of the works.The changing literary study modes makes the discussion on literature studies transfer from the grand narrative to empirical study.Getting rid of the binding of philosophy, sociology, history and psychology, people turn to the literature itself to explore the works and their features . Similarly, without the control of causal determinism makes it possible for them to grasp the gist of literature under the concrete language context.
First Page
45
Last Page
53
Recommended Citation
Ma, Hanguang. 2013. "On the Paradigm Transformation of Literary Studies: from Literature to Literariness." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 33, (4): pp.45-53. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol33/iss4/14
